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• Grammaticalization path
  ...he pathway a form or construction takes during [[grammaticalization]]. The change from a [[lexical item]] to a grammatical form does not take place in one ab ...instantiations of [[drift]] rather than [[external change|contact-induced change]], since they have "usually been viewed as independent, language internal c
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• Promotion
  ...if an [[object]] (or [[internal argument]]) becomes the [[subject]] (or [[external argument]]) with all the usual properties of subjects due to some morpholog :::''""Promotion" will here be used to refer to a change in the syntactic status of an NP such that it becomes accessible to one or
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• Chain shift
  ...[[phonemic inventory]]). Once this symmetry is violated due to some system-external causes there appears a gap. Due to the system-internal pressure to restore ...y pulling in some other sound of the phonemic system. If after this second change a new gap emerges the process of pulling continues resulting in a chain of
  3 KB (484 words) - 10:09, 11 February 2008
• Borrowing (i.e. copying)
  ...fluence on the lexicon and structure of a group's native language from the external language with which it is in contact. This kind of influence is referred to [[Category:Contact-induced change]]
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• Language
  ...he definition above, and the way in which they are normally acquired could change, as it has in the case of Hebrew, which for centuries was acquired more lik ...aking it harder to understand how the entire system works and how the more external systems influence the more internal ones.
  6 KB (1,027 words) - 02:37, 19 March 2016
• Error analysis
  The main achievement of '''error analysis''' consists in a change of perspective. Firstly, it let learners’ errors appear in a new light. T ...itude of possible causes (e.g. communication strategies, personal factors, external factors), and since the learner’s output is the only source of evidence u
  8 KB (1,122 words) - 20:58, 19 September 2009
• Tsez
  ...of only 42% of the nouns is different from the absolutive stem. Some nouns change their internal structure (e.g., a vowel), while others add one of about 20 ...nd verbs. In reduplicating nouns, the initial syllable can often undergo a change, as in ''xisi-basi'' "changes" or ''bix-mix'' (herbs). It is used to intens
  50 KB (8,020 words) - 17:31, 2 March 2018
• James D. McCawley/publications
  *1973a. External NP's vs. annotated deep structures. Linguistic Inquiry 4.221-240. ...of William S.-Y. Wang: Interdisciplinary Studies on Language and Language Change (Taipei: Pyramid), 313-22. Earlier version in University of ChicagoWorking
  31 KB (4,322 words) - 06:06, 8 March 2009